Flag of our Failures of Nerve

I recently watched Flag of Our Fathers.

It’s a wonderful movie (and a better book).

But the entire time I watched it, cialis sales recipe I couldn’t help contrasting America’s bravery then and our country’s cowardice now.

Yes, buy we’ve lost 2338 serviceman in the war in Iraq in the last three years.

But we lost 6,821 G.I.s in a little over a month at Iwo Jima.

Did that battle make us “change course?”

Did we draw down?

Did we run away?

No. We kept fighting until the enemy lost their will to do the same.

If today’s Democrats had been in charge in the 1940s instead of FDR, I think a very different flag might have ended up flying over Iwo Jima.

4 comments November 14th, 2006